Abstracts from Journal of Health Education Research & Development

Introduction: The development of a society depends on public health of its people. In cases threatening public health, external parasites is still a health problem arises. Prevalence of head lice in children 6-12 years and primary schools developed countries is 10.2 percent. On the other hand there is also a problem in developin.. Read More

Background: Human immunodeficiency virus highly affected young peoples in developing countries, of which sexual transmission was the major route including vaginal, oral and anal sex. Understanding the full range of sexual behavior among young people especially anal sexual experience is very crucial to design appropriate int.. Read More

Purpose: This study aimed to evaluate the oral health related awareness and practicesof diabetes mellitus and its effects on oral health in anganwadi workers.Study design: It is an interventional type of study.Materials and methods: 200 anganwadi workers from the areas of Hingna, Wanadongri, Gumgaon and Wadhdhamna in Nagpur dist.. Read More

Background: In basic life support, chest compressions are a very important and basic skill. Acquiring the ability to perform chest compressions is affected by individual characteristics such as physique and physical strength, although all persons can learn to Perform Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR), including chest compressi.. Read More

Introduction: Tobacco is a preventable cause of morbidity and mortality across the globe. Low and middle income countries (LMICs) are the most severely affected. Shisha has been shown to be associated with a wide range of detrimental health effects.Objectives: Measure the prevalence of shisha smoking among medical students at Co.. Read More

Context: Although telomeres are “sacrificial” DNA without any necessary genetic content, each time a cell divides, telomeres get shorter. When they decrease to a critical length, cell division ceases and cells becomes inactive or “senescent” or die. This process is associated with aging. To some extent, t.. Read More

With an example of truck refrigerant filling process, an experimental method by E-prime was used to verify the analysis of human error probability in the refrigerant filling process by The Technique of Human Error Rate Prediction (THERP). The result of the experiment is basically in coincidence with the result of THERP. The weak.. Read More

Background: Simulation has been widely adopted as a training and assessment tool in medical education. The aim of our research was to investigate an influence of hybrid simulation on the students’ success at bladder catheterization (BC) procedure, on the knowledge retention and communication with patient-actors. We we.. Read More

This study, conducted among men who have sex with men (MSM) in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), sought to replicate the syndemic effects of psychosocial health problems on HIV risk by using data collected from a sample of 300 MSM and bisexuals from Tanzania. We also sought to test the utility of syndemic theory by replicating the effec.. Read More

Family education is a fundamental pillar for individuals' education and an essential part of the personality and human constitution of each of us. This is what has motivated our interest in ascertaining what has been published on this important subject. We do so through attempting to discover what has been published in leading S.. Read More

Background: In the extremely homophobic conditions in Tanzania and other countries in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), men who have sex with men (MSM) experience disproportionate amounts of both HIV infection and psychosocial health problems, but no research has been conducted to examine the synergistic or additive effects of the.. Read More

Tanzanian men who have sex with men (MSM) experience HIV disparity and are disproportionately vulnerable to psychosocial health problems together called SAVID (Substance abuse, childhood and adolescent sexual Abuse [CSA], anti-gay Violence, Internalized homonegativity [IH], and Depression). We applied syndemic theory to asse.. Read More

Context: The purpose of this study is to review the studies that have used educational intervention in the field of emerging infectious diseases, based on methods, application of models, and theories of health education and health promotion and the effect of interventions on prevention and reducing the incidence of these disease.. Read More

In Bangladesh, the nutritional status of adolescents is reprehensible, where a large number of adolescent girls are suffering from malnutrition. Among others, anaemia is currently one of the most common and intractable nutritional problems that may develop at any stage of the life cycle but children, adolescent girls and women o.. Read More

The concept of a client having both a Substance Abuse Disorder (SAD) as well as a mental disorder is becoming more prevalent with 25 to 33% of all mental health patients considered dual-diagnosed [1]. While counselors are equipped to address one of the disorders in clients readily, the comorbidity creates difficulty in best .. Read More

Nursing education has direct relationship with quality based clinical practice and standardized care; however, private versus public education makes a difference among the graduates. Unfortunately, in Pakistan, nursing education has been facing numerous challenges with respect of lack of unified policies, absence of strategic pl.. Read More

Objectives: This study aims to investigate likely impact of pre-service IMCI- training on nursing students’ case assessment and management skills. Methods: The study was carried out at Blinded Nursing Institute, Oman in May 2016. We developed a validated four constructs for developing a hypothetical model. The four constru.. Read More

As an illness, cancer is strongly established in the social imagination. Individuals build ideas from medical, social, and media discourses, which makes it sometimes difficult for them to comprehend the subject. Educational interventions have focused on disseminating information concerning the disease but have remained indif.. Read More

The paper aims to identify the current situation, in terms of curriculum structure and assessment methods, to prepare the College of Applied Medical Sciences at Taibah University to meet the requirements of the educational framework implemented by the National Commission for Accreditation and Assessment (NCAAA). It proposes .. Read More

Objective: The aim of the study was to know dietary habits and nutritional knowledge of women nursing students.
Material and methods: Participants of the study were a random sample composed of 200 female students of health sciences. This sample represented the 95% of total, and the 5% was excluded (men and chronic illness). W.. Read More